Making AI Ubiquitous to Bridge Digital Inequality – Looking at the Possibilities

A few years back, Kursat Ceylan, a person with vision impairment, was trying to locate his hotel using his smartphone and cane while pulling heavy baggage by himself. It was then that he accidentally walked into a pole and got himself injured. This incident inspired him to create Wewalk – an AI-enabled smart walking cane that can detect objects above chest level.